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Chemistry
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Arsenic!
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CASTELLO, Pietro. Chalcanthium Dodecaporion sive Duodecim Dubitationes in usu olei Vitrioli et defensio Antiquorum in Arsenici... ad Raymundum Minderum. Rome, Mascardi, 1629.
Rare first edition of this polemical work against the use of liquid salts and defending in their stead the controlled use of arsenic, bound with three other titles by the same author on 1)pharmacy, 2)a distilled vitriolic spirit, 3) the use of hellebore.
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"A new epoch in chemistry" - PMM
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LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries... Third Edition... Edinburgh, William Creech, 1796.
Robert Kerr's English translation of Lavoisier's Trait lementaire de Chimie (Paris, 1789), a work whose "...most fundamental innovations transformed how one presents, how one argues, scientific knowledge and how, as a result, one develops and transmits it" -W. C. Anderson.
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A ‘GOLDEN TRIPLET’ OF ALCHEMICAL TEXTS,
INCLUDING THE ‘TWELVE KEYS’, EMBLEMATIZED
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MAIER, Michael. Tripus Aureus, hoc est, Tres Tractatus Chymici Selectissimi, nempe I. Basilii Valentini...Practica una cum 12 clavibus & appendice, ex Germanico; II. . Frankfurt, Paul Jacob for Lucas Jennis, 1618.
Scarce edition of three alchemical texts—comprising the first illustrated appearance of the ‘Twelve Keys’ of Basil Valentine, and the first printed editions of Thomas Norton’ The Ordinall of Alchemy, and John Cremer’s ‘Testament’—collected by the pre-eminent Rosicrucian apologist Maier.
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Organic Chemistry On The Index
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RASPAIL, Francois Vincent. Nouveau Systeme De Chimie Organique, Fondur Des Methodes Nouvelles D'Observation... Paris, J.B. Bailliere, 1833.
First edition of a pivotal book in organic chemistry and the most important and original scientific work of a self-taught, somewhat belligerent scientist-politician Raspail (1794-1878).
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The Discovery of Oxygen
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SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm. Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer. Nebst einem Vorbericht von Torbern Bergman... Upsala & Leipzig, Magn. Swederus... zu finden bey S.L. Crusius, 1777.
First edition of this extremely scarce and important book which contains the announcement of Scheele’s discovery of oxygen, made independently of, and two years prior to, Priestley.
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